The article is about a photographer named William Castellanos. He took a number of photos of Cubans who were preparing to escape the country. This particular photo shows one young girl looking not the camera. He said it alway has haunted him.

The article says, "William Castellanos snapped the black and white photo in August 1994 when he was an art student in Havana, capturing the moment when 35,000 Cubans took to the sea in makeshift rafts."